woolly-headed

[ wool-ee-hed-id ]

/ ˈwʊl iˈhɛd ɪd /

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adjective

having hair of a woolly texture or appearance.

marked by fuzzy thinking; muddleheaded; dim-witted.

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Origin of woolly-headed

First recorded in 1640–50

wool·ly-head·ed·ness, noun

Here she is in June saying “Trans politics and feminism have never been headed to the same place.”
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Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
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Rodriguez now headed home to his kids, as did thousands of other police parents.
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He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.
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He had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend early that morning in Baltimore and headed for his native Brooklyn.
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But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."
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But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
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The pig-headed prowler I saw, with my pompon missing from his shoe, and his bonne amie wearing the stolen ring.
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She wondered if he would take his youth in his bald-headed season, like the self-made American millionaire.
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They divested themselves of their coats and vests, and, bare-headed, each advanced to receive his weapon.
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